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Book SynopsisEnglish pop music was a dominant force on the global cultural scene in the decades after World War II – and it served a key role in defining, constructing and challenging various ideas about Englishness in the period. Kari Kallioniemi covers a stunning range of styles of pop – from punk, reggae and psychedelia to jazz, rock, Brit Pop and beyond – as he explores the question of how various artists (including such major figures as David Bowie and Morrissey), genres and pieces of music contributed to the developing understanding of who and what was English in the transformative post-war years.
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction: Englishness, History and Writing about Pop Music – Seeking the Authentic Voice of Pop-Britain
Chapter 1: Strategies for Conceptualizing Notions of Pop-Englishness
1.1. The Peculiarities of English National Pop Identity
1.2. Between Modernity and Tradition: Imaginary Englishness
1.3. Englishness and Pop Geography
1.4. Pop-Englishness and Transnationalism: The History of Americanization and Relation to Europe
1.5. The Peculiar Entrepreneurialism of British Music Management
Chapter 2: From Tommy Steele to Village Green Preservation Society
2.1. Pop, English Parochialism and Post-War Britain − Change and Continuity
2.2. Young England, Half English: Englishness, the History of National Music and the Emergence of British Rock’n’roll
2.3. The Myth of Swinging Englishness: The British Invasion and Swinging London
2.4. Lazing on a Sunny Psychedelic Afternoon − Englishness and the 1960s Nostalgia for Imaginary Spaces of England
Chapter 3: Anarchy and Enterprise in the UK and the Multiplying of Notions of Pop-Englishness
3.1. From the Winter of Discontent to Free Enterprise: Thatcherism, Pop and Englishness
3.2. Punk, Disco and Progressive Rock: The Proliferation of Pop-Englishness in the 1970s
3.3. Dandyist Masks and Escape Rout(in)es of David Bowie and the New Pop
3.4. Pop-Englishness and Politics: The White British Soul Boys
Chapter 4: The Road to Britpop and Back
4.1. Blairism and Cameronism: Pop, Politics and Englishness
4.2. Morrissey as an International Outsider
4.3. The North Strikes Back − Madchester and the Northern Metaphor Revisited
4.4. The Battle for Britpop
4.5. Post-Britpop and the Ghosts of Englishnesses Past
References
Index
